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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Thursday that his office handed out gift vouchers to rookie lawmakers of his party and at his own expense, a revelation that could inflict a severe blow to his administration, given that his minority government needs opposition support to pass the budget and key bills.

Employees said they weren’t told that the co-founder of Unciphered was Morgan Marquis-Boire, a once-celebrated spyware foe who was accused of sexual assault.

It was only three years ago that a dispute between an infamous crypto billionaire and a titan of the financial establishment became the center of attention at an annual event known as the Davos of the ...

SoftBank is marching ahead on its ambitions to build out a major AI operation in its home market of Japan, on its own steam and in strategic partnership with others like OpenAI. On Friday, the tech ...

NHK Party chief Takashi Tachibana was bleeding from in the ear, but he was conscious before he was sent to a hospital, a report said.

The crypto market has been challenging recently following increased selling pressure, which led to major price swings. The volatility has seen the leading asset

Japanese companies are again offering workers the biggest pay increase in three decades, the nation’s largest labor union group said.

"Price manipulations, coin failures, and use of cryptocurrencies in illicit finance will increase," warns D.C.-based watchdog group Public Citizen.

At a White House summit last week, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick spoke passionately about the administration’s plans to embrace cryptocurrencies, a largely unregulated industry that has historically operated on the fringes of finance.

The totally nonsensical "official Chinese Mint crypto" scam, Japan dives into stablecoins, Bithumb chair vindicated: Asia Express.

After Milei endorsed his own memecoin, its value skyrocketed to a total market capitalization of more than $4.5 billion, according to the crypto analytics tool DEX Screener. But L ...

Binance’s BNB token climbed after a Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump family is in talks to secure a financial stake in Binance’s U.S. arm. Such an arrangement would link them to a firm that ...

Discussions between the family’s World Liberty Financial and the world’s largest digital-asset exchange are said to include possible work on new stablecoin.

A widely followed crypto analyst is warning that Bitcoin (BTC) may plummet in value if one key support level breaks down.

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. could increase its offer to acquire rival global convenience-store retailer Seven & i Holdings Co. Ltd., but only if the Tokyo-based company engages in talks, Couche-Tard ...

Abu Dhabi’s burgeoning obsession with artificial intelligence just took something of a detour. The richest of the United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday that its MGX investment vehicle was paying $2 billion to acquire a minority stake in cryptocurrency exchange Binance.